The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-25


cernmeut which We cannot doubt, pro,
duced its fruits III the Intelligent appre
citation of to-day.
A great pile OF old play bills is before
us-the faded and yellow records Of
elo-ies almost forgotten. Twenty-Five
years ago this December, Julia Oeau
daYne-noW the lost aud laDen,ed-
was waking up the city With
the CLARION of her genius, and
Iptesenung a ceaseless round OF
tcharacters with rapidity, and q
brilliance,. almost bewilderlng in its
variety. The first old bill bears the
A,daCe of Decem Ger IL 1855, Wh,n, Inc
Merchant of Venice would Of presented
for the first time here with Julia
Dean as POrlia GEORGE B. Waldron Was
The Shylock of the, occasion, but IN the
| bills he seems to be az insignificant
figure compared with the Portia.
Lindsay was the Duke, Mckenzie the
Antonio, Dunba. the Gobbo AMI
Graham the saIanlo. a night
or two later The Hunchb4ck
Followed then came Cameo
and In rapid succession were presented
the Wrecker's Daughter. ? z .rro, the
| Marble Heart with Mrs. Bowring and
Miss Alexander as the other
| WV cGhbuCcJ, MhCUSLu, ACOSd
The Woman in White, East Lynne,
School For Scandal, Fazuo, Leah ,
the Forsaken, Guy Msnnering the
Wife, Maoelaine, Griseldis, etc. In all
these MIR. Waidron-now also de
parted-reDdereu The leading sup
port. Miss BELLE Clawson )
name appears occasionally when
there is child lie TO be filed
(the lady is now the mother of little
AdIe Cummings, to whom the family
talent hiss also apparently descend ed);
! Msrgetts, Graham, Mckenzie, Lindsay
| Kelly, Thompson, John L. Game, D. J .
| Macintosh, E. 6. Woolley, ]. r. Claw
son, ii. e. BowrlnA. JIM Summons, J.
| ~. Kardie, Miss Adams, Mrs NJ. q.
Clswson, Miss Alexander, Mrs. Bow
! ring, Mrs. Leslie, and occasionally a
mysterious Miss -Zina" and 8 Miss
Eutelie " are the ma es from
which she SUPPORT was drawn.
AS g relief from the tragedy
long as it Was-there was every night
! d farce, and such old titles a.: In and
7 Out OF Place, Nobes VIII Turn Him
| Out, The Captains not Amiss, Raising
| the Wind, The Artful DOdeer, The
Rendezvous, The FOOL Of the Family,
etc, are always seen at the foot OF me
uuCE Of good thing, and fr quentIy
We fad olios. iHterlaced between Mac
! beth end a roaring farce; 2s "NIoiIn
/ $40, from SoInnambula, MIR. George
Careless; Recitation, 10y particular re
ques) Ode on the death of President
| Lincoln, Julia Dean Hay ne; faForite
| ballad Mrs n. y. Leslie" ETC., etc.
| 44oobing along the dates for some
/ tlzae, ana we come TO the Programme
! o. q Drli $, 1868 dTaped IN &ck, Nj its
te5Iyor, 4. l.. Sl.:r1i, giving & Biographies.
sketch OF tn gsle5rated julia Dean
| Hayue Cooper, WAC mad breathed her
last in the east short me previously
| From this ske Oh We gIran thar ne was
lat hvr zenith in 1850, when lie ap-
! p AIRED n Charleston, al the time
I the celebTa ted convention W2e held. LIZ
Septem Der. 1866, she had been divorced
! from HayHe III the Goutts OF salt Laht,
I on the ground OF failure TO provide
Two children by her first marriage sti:l
| reside il California.
/ Following julia Dean i'll the bills.
caue me visit ii Mr.. Couldock and his
daughter, and Tor some time sCch
! pieces as the Lion VI 81. Marc, or the
Ch;ei Of the CouRcA OF Je,,, - Lost IL
lUudon,' "OChello l4It4 Lynne
as Iago), "Jocris>e the Jugg!er, ,
etc, were emota2uned upon the
bills. Poor old CouIdocki He
lett The daughter whom he used TO be
rate SO iOuQly, buC whom Z loved So
fondiy, il the graveyard her, and
many said tGat when lie went away, ne
LETT his art burned VITA neF. On Lhe
rare oeca5iyns when h ha visited Salt
Lake since, he always spends al hour
alone at his daughttrS grave. Pie
name OF The great tIageCian." James
STARK, mex appears Ill the big black
T. De tAaI used 10 dignity stars above
the c, nmon herd and ate. on came the
scholarly sCjOr. TO @uUS5 suJouTu here
most of our sid. time professionals owe
ST. much OF the education they gained
III their aTt--GeJIEe PauuCefuri. I'll
Romance 0f Poor Young Man, The
streets Of New York AMI The Three
Uuardsmen then tirstsaw the i'gct. and
very excellent We're the representations !
under fAurcefOrt's TIgId dictatorship. !
Like the rest, lie has gone out Of our /
experiences: ne SUjOurns to-day II orr !
eLIai comfort in the climate al japan. |
content there TO glide along III easr |
to his latter end. With am, !
stone, came The French spy, The Long !
Strike, The Female Gam bier. and other !
creations OF ina, Tx. EDen came An |
nette lnce, IN a ponderOUs role of the |
- heayles," supported by the unfaihng |
ald apaGiuus-meuGued stock CON |
pauy. a charming engagement aud |
one that i still well remembered by |
old timer ws.s lhaUof II dam Scteiler. !
y 40 gave US first the weird " Phantom,
IL when MckeIzle did the cheerful |
gar ii bl0od.ucker, who live 'orever
~ drinking Of a you ,irl's
blood, at Ger al. rare intervals. y adaut
gave us taste of niue that
sas light and graceful, however, such
as The Pearl Of Savoy, and me news OF
her death abroad some years after her
Tislt here, was received with genuine
In March, 1858, we find ia great bill
Tor a compliments ~ beuah
% Manager John L. Ca ne, rendered By
Mayor Wells. Governor Durkee, SecIe-
ary Higgins. george A. Smith. pres,-
lent eli the council; John Taylor,
peaker OF the House; R. Z. Burtou,
United States collrctor; land many
,ther citizens" Mr.. Gaines choice
vas, of course the Octoroon,
Il which his WahnOtee, is stlli
% we'll remembered. Captain Croxali's